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10/12/2016

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The Astrojots webcomic has been launched. Welcome!

I'm fortunate enough to be the recipient of an STFC Public Engagement Fellowship, providing me with support to produce Astrojots whilst continuing my main job as a researcher in Planetary Science at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

I thought it'd be great to try to produce a webcomic that concentrates on planetary science and astronomy. Yes, I'm a huge fan of webcomics such as xkcd (especially strips like this and this) and phdcomics, but Astrojots will be quite different. As well as random short strips that might well be influenced by ongoing missions and new results, there will be longer strips appearing occasionally that provide more detail on a particular topic, such as space history, or a particular moon or planet. I'll try to produce material for everyone, but the strips will have different levels of complexity; some that I hope will be understandable by children under 10, others for those with a secondary school science background, and a few more advanced topics. As the collection grows, I'll provide guidance on the level of complexity, and will provide teachers with links to relevant topics in the national curriciula in the UK where I can.

The Astrojots strips are free to use for educational and personal use, so teachers, please feel free to dowload strips and print them out for your class. Please get in touch if you want to use the strips for anything else. 

I'll post Astrojots strips as often as I can, but I might go quiet occasionally if things get particularly hectic with my main job! There will also be some other Astrojots-related output too; watch this space!

Keep up-to-date on the latest strips by following @astrojots on Twitter, or follow astrojots on Facebook.
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    Geraint Jones

    I'm a Professor of Planetary Science at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory 
    (@MSSLSpaceLab), and also produce Astrojots.
    You can follow me on Twitter at @einionyn
    (and follow @astrojots for updates on the Astrojots webcomic).

    On this blog, I'll occasionally provide some background on, and plans for the Astrojots project.

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All Astrojots strips are licensed under a Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC-ND 
​They are free for educational and personal use, but not for commercial use. The material must be not be used for derivative works without permission, and should always cite the source, 
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Astrojots is kindly supported by a UK STFC Public Engagement Fellowship.
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